Halysites catenularius

Halysites catenularius

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HalysitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 27 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 24 of 27 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450.2 Mya425 Mya472 Mya422 Mya

27 occurrences of Halysites catenularius on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

27 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

15 formations

Upper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.82°N, 18.48°ELower Visby — 57.83°N, 18.57°ELower Visby — 57.63°N, 18.28°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBrassfield — 41.13°N, 84.23°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WAmadjuak — 66.00°N, 69.83°WDolayoba Limestone — 40.88°N, 29.23°EMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WAllen Bay — 74.69°N, 94.80°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.81°W

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The named rock units Halysites catenularius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halysites catenularius and its relatives

Silurian

Where Halysites catenularius and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

411 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Halysites catenularius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 27 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Halysites catenularius

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHalysites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)